Method of making hats.



W. H. HASTINGS.

METHOD OF MAKING HATS.

APPLICATION FILED Mme. 1914.

Patented Sept. 22, 1914,

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METHOD OF MAKING HATS.

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WILLIAM H. HASTINGS, OF MALIDEN ,1VIASSAGHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO MERRIMAC HAT COMPANY, OFAMESBURY, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

METHOD OF MAKING HATS.

. Specification of Letters Patent. ,Patentetl Sept. 22, 191%.

Application filed March 6,1814. Serial No. 823,257.

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM H. HAST- Ines, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Malden, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Methods of Making Hats, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a method of treating hats, particularly felt hats, whereby the color of portions of the outer surfaces thereof may be changed permanently, leaving ornamental designs thereon, while the inner surfaces and under faces of the brims retain their original color.

The invention consists primarily in clamppressure between two perforated plates, the inner faces of which are provided with desired designs and then immersing the hat thus clamped in a bath of liquid adapted to change the color of the portions of said hat not under pressure.

Of the drawings: Figure 1 represents a plan of a device by which pressure is applied to portions of a hat in carrying out the principles of the present invention. Fig. 2 represents an elevation of the same. Fig. 3 represents a plan of the inner face of one of the clamping plates. Fig. 4: represents a section of the clamping device showing a hat clamped therein, the cutting plane being on line 4.-4. on Fig. 1. Fig. 5 represents a vertical section of the bath receptacle containing the color changing liquid and showingthe clamped hat immersed therein. Fig. 6 represents a hat par-- tially manufactured and flattened preparatory to being placed between the clamping plates, and Fig. 7 represents the same hat after its removal from the clamping plates subsequent to its immersion in the color changing liquid.

slmilar characters designate like parts throughout the several figures of the draw- 111 's.

Tn the drawings, 10 and 11 are two similar plates provided with a plurality of perfforations 12 extending therethrough and having correspondingly shaped flat surfaces 13 oppositely disposed when said plates are in register. The plates are properly registered by. a plurality of projections 14 on the plate 10 coacting with the notches 15 in the other plate 11.

When the hat 16 has been manufactured sufliciently to permit, its outer surface to be finished, it is folded flat and placed between the perforated plates 10. and 11, the. flat earing surfaces of which may be of any desired design. Flat bars 17 are then placed against the outer faces of said plates and by meansof the clamp screws 18 and nuts 19 the plates are forced together clamping the hat 16 between them and so compressing the material thereof as to prevent any liquid from acting thereon when the hat is immersed. When the clamp screws 18 and nuts 19 have been adjusted to the limit, additional pressure may be applied to the interior portions of the plates 10 and 11 by the turning of the intermediate screws 20 threaded to one of the bars 17. When sufficient pressure has been applied to the hat 16 the said hat thus subjected to pressure is immersed in a color changing bath 21 in a receptacle 22 in which it is permitted to remain until the color of the portions of the surface of said hat not under pressure has been changed materially. This bath 21 may consist of a solution which will act upon the exposed surfaces of the hat and remove the original color therefrom, or the bath may consist of any suitable dye which will add. a new color to the exposed surfaces of the hat. When the hat 16 has been sufiiciently treated in this manner, it is removed from the bath and permitted to dry. When the plates 10 11 have been removed from the hat it will have over its entire outer surface designs of two different colors, while the inner surface and the under face of the brim will be one solid color. The hat may then be finished in the usual manner.

This makes a very effective method of finishing hats, it being possible, by varying the construction of the plates, 1011, to apply any predetermined design to the surace.

While only one clamping device is shown in the receptacle 2?. it is obvious that in practice this receptacle will be of such a shape and size as to receive a plurality of clamping devices at one time.

By this improved methodthe designs will extend into the surface of the material a sufficient depth as to make them more permanent than where the designs are applied by stencil or other similar means.

It is believed that the operation of the of folding the hat flat, clamping the same} between tWo perforated plates, andthen 1m;

mers'ing the hat thus clamped in a bath of; liquid adapted to act upon the unclampedl portions of the hat and change the color thereof.

3. The method of treating hats consisting of subjecting the hat to pressure between two plates having registering perforations and then immersing the same in a bath of liquid'adapted to act uponthe exposed surfaces of the hat; j a

4. The method of treating'h'ats consisting of holding the inner surfaces of the hat together by clamping the hat between two perforated plates to exclude liquid fromthe inside of the hat, and then immersing the clamped hat in a liquid adapted to act on the surfaces of the hat exposed by said perforations. 1 t i Signed by neat 4L Post 'Oflice Sq, Boston, Mass, this 28thday of February, 1914:.

-WILLIAMH. HASTINGS.

WVitnesses: i r

[WALTER E. LoMBARD,

NATHAN O. LO'MBARD,

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